domainemaster.com: What these trademarks have what general domains don't have ?(part 2)

What these trademarks have what general domains don't have ?(part 2)

That isn't that easy, but in the same time nor that hard to decipher. What these trademarks companies have is a very distinguishable Name, a Brand Name.

These trademarks - brand name domains have a reputation (mostly because of their professionalism, which is already incorporated as company rule no.1. and they are enforcing it rightly), so these domains have a wide areas for expanding their products/services solely through a name.

As competition to trademarks, general domain names in this sense are losing their general ability i.e. we as internet users in majority are visiting trademark websites and not general domain names when we are searching, looking for a specific products. Moreover, when searching for a specific products/services, generally we would go directly to that trademark website.

There is also evident a language/linguistic issue in the Internet – www world. This issue had plumped when ccTLDs came into living because these domain extensions had gave to all of the nations what belongs to them – their national language webspace. So this was a very rightly undertaking. I'm personally very pleased with that, people are just more happier because of that came into realization and reification.

In marketing, promotial, e-commerce(commerce), economic, industry sense this linguistic barriers momentarily can be resolved through translations to every national's language.

General domain names and trademarks are perceieving national extensions as a view of business expanding methods, although this way we are pulling many legal and formal questions e.g. trying to expand our business with the general domain names which are in the same hand the general terms-general domain names, over the borders is very hard because of the norms and rules which are binding us in particulary State or Country.
Moreover, it wouldn't be odd that these have already been taken. As Trademarks concerns, these would have an easier job, regarding claiming the domain names, but it's naturally that every country take care about the National interests.

From nationality aspect, due to the bare development; we differ two kind of a domain extensions or sufixes:

1. TLDs
2. ccTLDs

1. The right-most label in a domain name is referred to as its "top-level domain" (TLD).
Each TLD includes many different second-level domains (such as "DomaineMaster" in "www.DomaineMaster.com".
Most TLDs with three or more characters are referred to as "generic" TLDs, or "gTLDs". They can be subdivided into two types, "sponsored" TLDs (sTLDs) and "unsponsored TLDs (uTLDs), which i will describe more detailed in some of my next articles.

2. Country Code Top level domains are reffered to as TLDs with two letters (such as .de, .ec, .uk, .mx, .cn and .jp...etc.) have been established for over 240 countries and external territories and are referred to as "country-code" TLDs or "ccTLDs". They are delegated to designated managers, who operate the ccTLDs according to local policies that are adapted to best meet the economic, cultural, linguistic, and legal circumstances of the country or territory involved, so these are let's say in some sense country individual domains.

Here bellow you can see a list of some of the TLDs and ccTLDs:

Some of domain extensions

a (unknown)
bitnet (unknown)
ac United Kingdom academic institutions
ad Andorra
ae United Arab Emirates
.aero - Sponsored - For the air-transport industry
af Afghanistan
ag Antigua and Barbuda
ai Anguilla
al Albania
am Armenia
an Netherlands Antilles
ao Angola
aq Antarctica
ar Argentina
* The TLD .arpa (Address and Routing Parameter Area) also exists but this is an infrastructure TLD and is designated to be used exclusively for Internet-infrastructure purposes.
as American Samoa
at Austria
au Australia
aw Aruba
az Azerbaijan
ba Bosnia and Herzegovina
bb Barbados
bd Bangladesh
be Belgium
bf Burkina Faso
bg Bulgaria
bh Bahrain
bi Burundi
.biz - Unrestricted - Intended for business use
bj Benin
bm Bermuda
bn Brunei Darussalam
bo Bolivia
br Brazil
bs Bahamas
bt Bhutan
bv Bouvet Island
bw Botswana
by Belarus
bz Belize
ca Canada
cc Cocos (Keeling) Islands
cf Central African Republic
cg Congo
ch Switzerland
ci Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
ck Cook Islands
cl Chile
cm Cameroon
cn China
co Colombia
.com - Unrestricted - Originally intended for commercial registrants
.coop - Sponsored - For co-operatives
cr Costa Rica
cs Czechoslovakia (former)
cu Cuba
cv Cape Verde
cx Christmas Island
cy Cyprus
cz Czech Republic
de Germany
dj Djibouti
dk Denmark
dm Dominica
do Dominican Republic
dz Algeria
ec Ecuador
.edu - Sponsored - For post-secondary institutions that are institutionally accredited by an agency on the United States Department of Education’s list of Nationally Recognized Accrediting Agencies
ee Estonia
eg Egypt
eh Western Sahara
er Eritrea
es Spain
et Ethiopia
fi Finland
fj Fiji
fk Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
fm Micronesia
fo Faroe Islands
fr France
fx France (Metropolitan)
ga Gabon
gb Great Britain (UK)
gd Grenada
ge Georgia
gf French Guiana
gh Ghana
gi Gibraltar
gl Greenland
gm Gambia
gn Guinea
.gov - Sponsored - For U.S. governmental organizations
gp Guadaloupe
gq Equatorial Guinea
gr Greece
gs South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
gt Guatemala
gu Guam
gw Guinea-Bissau
gy Guyana
hk Hong Kong
hm Heard and McDonald Islands
hn Honduras
hr Croatia (Hrvatska)
ht Haiti
hu Hungary
id Indonesia
ie Ireland
il Israel
in India
.info - Unrestricted - Unrestricted use
.int - Sponsored - For international inter-governmental treaty-based organizations
io British Indian Ocean Territory
iq Iraq
ir Iran
is Iceland
it Italy
jm Jamaica
jo Jordan
jp Japan
ke Kenya
kg Kyrgyzstan
kh Cambodia
ki Kiribati
km Comoros
kn Saint Kitts and Nevis
kp Korea (North)
kr Korea (South)
ku Kuwait
ky Cayman Islands
kz Kazakhstan
la Laos
lb Lebanon
lc Saint Lucia
li Liechtenstein
lk Sri Lanka
lr Liberia
ls Lesotho
lt Lithuania
lu Luxembourg
lv Latvia
ly Libya
ma Morocco
mc Monaco
md Moldova
mg Madagascar
mh Marshall Islands
.mil - Sponsored - For the United States military
mk Macedonia
ml Mali
mm Mynamar
mn Mongolia
mo Macau
mp Northern Mariana Islands
mq Martinique
mr Mauritania
ms Montserrat
mt Malta
mu Mauritius
.museum - Sponsored - For museums
mv Maldives
mw Malawi
mx Mexico
my Malaysia
mz Mozambique
na Namibia
.name - Unrestricted - Aimed at individual registrants
nc New Caledonia
ne Niger
.net - Unrestricted - Originally intended for network provides, etc.
nf Norfolk Island
ng Nigeria
ni Nicaragua
nl Netherlands
no Norway
np Nepal
nr Nauru
nt Neutral Zone
nu Niue
nz New Zealand (Aotearoa)
om Oman
.org - Unrestricted - Originally intended for not-for-profit organizations
pa Panama
pe Peru
pf French Polynesia
pg Papua New Guinea
ph Philippines
pk Pakistan
pl> Poland
pm Saint Pierre and Miquelon
pn Pitcairn
pr Puerto Rico
.pro - Unrestricted - For professionals such as accountants, lawyers, physicians
pt Portugal
pw Palau
py Paraguay
qa Qatar
re Reunion
ro Romania
ru Russian Federation
rw Rwanda
sa Saudi Arabia
sb Solomon Islands
sc Seychelles
sd Sudan
se Sweden
sg Singapore
sh Saint Helena
si Slovenia
sj Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands
sk Slovak Republic
sl Sierra Leone
sm San Marino
sn Senegal
so Somalia
sr Suriname
st Sao Tome and Principe
su USSR (former)
sv El Salvador
sy Syria
sz Swaziland
tc Turks and Caicos Islands
td Chad
tf French Southern Territories
tg Togo
th Thailand
tj Tajikistan
tk Tokelau
tm Turkmenistan
tn Tunisia
to Tonga
tp East Timor
tr Turkey
tt Trinidad and Tobago
tv Tuvalu
tw Taiwan
tz Tanzania
ua Ukraine
ug Uganda
uk United Kingdom
um US Minor Outlying Islands
us United States
uy Uruguay
uz Uzbekistan
va Vatican City State
vc Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
ve Venezuela
vg Virgin Islands (British)
vi Virgin Islands (US)
vn Viet Nam
vu Vanuatu
wf Wallis and Futuna Islands
ws Samoa
ye Yemen
yt Mayotte
yu Yugoslavia
za South Africa
zm Zambia
zr Zaire
zw Zimbabwe

Many, many other domain extensions about which i will write till time to time, some of them are very fresh, some are very uknown, special cases and so on...